THURSDAY TOTALS

                     Luckily, I saved this one square for my Merry Month of May...
                   this is for the 13th and will be doing today's block later....

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                                             Four new 16-Patch Squared ....
                             I love how those leaves in the top left one
                                just came together--
                                   totally serendipity....;))) 
                                      12 of these done...

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And something beautiful to raise your spirits as it did mine;)))⇊⇊⇊

                   Here is the Mother's Day and Birthday bouquet my son
                       and family sent me....
                           I love those little white roses 
                                  and the snapdragons...;)))


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                    I now have 63 Courthouse Steps made.....
                      (7 by 9 = 63 ) which doesn't even come close
                        to covering even just the
                          top of our king bed....

                             I have put these on a bit of a hold ----
                               while I set up to quilt the SIL's 
                                 "Sailing into the Future" quilt
                                    I hope to set up Helga for
                                      quilting tomorrow, and work on it through
                                           this weekend...

  I want to get  this off of my dining table and get it D O N E!!!

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We, at least, have a nice sunny day today (not even thinking about
the storms headed our way for tonight and tomorrow!!); 000
I hope to take a little stroll around my yard to see 
what is going on (if anything)
with my various little garden spots...

I hope you are staying safe ---

~ ~ ~ waving while walking~ ~ ~ ~ 
Julierose, La Blageuse (deciding on quilting-euse)

ALL LAYERED UP

                                 "Sailing into the Future" is finally layered up,
                                 on my dining room table ready to be pinned....

[ I am sure a lot of you use and know this method below--so you
                   can skip it all if you want, I won't take offense ;))) ]

For my non-quilting followers here is what I do:

I spent the first part of this morning "frankensewing" those batting
strips I had previously cut  for QAYG; and since I could not see 👀👀 
how I could  do a continuous quilting pattern 
when it was set up that way--
I sewed them with a 3-step zig zag
stitch (thank you Wanda for that tip on your blog--
it worked so much better than the regular z-z stitch)   ;))))

Got it ready to pin                    Using this method:↡↡↡↡ {below}

       I spent the next 1/2 hour on my knees crawling around the batting
to smooth it out and to figure out the center points on either end before
layering (smoothing, shifting etc. still on the knees) the blue top over
the batting....ready to roll up....

Sit down, breathe...👵

(pause for a rest hahaha--that's my Grand-mere's old canning jar 
up there that I use to store my quilting safety pins--
the curved ones--- and I just  LOVE 💓 that Kwik Klip tool--- 
it saves my fingers for sure)

OKAY--now back to work..;)))
Then....
I centered the backing, wrong side up, on my dining table over my blocking
pad (left over from my sweater blocking days when I used to knit a lot) 
making sure it was really flat....
Then...

Back on the floor (oof-dah) to roll up the now layered batting and front 
together...
before placing
it onto the backing and unrolling it evenly...

PHEW!! Crawling on the floor is for "young folk" for sure!! 👵👾

A cuppa tea is in order and a little square of a brownie..yum
a gal needs some energy food after this!! 

                                            Y U M M Y.....;}}}
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I had a request for homemade bread yesterday from the Mr.

                                     Man-oh-man is that good;)))

I am trying to stay busy on this rainy, windswept last
                   day of April...these showers had just better bring 
                                 💧💧MAY FLOWERS, guys!! 💧💧

Stay safe and sheltered

~ ~ ~ waving from beneath my bumbershoot 
Julierose, La Blageuse (ready to pin it up-euse)

"SAILING INTO THE FUTURE"

                                  I 've  Finished the back of Steve's quilt......

                              A lovely, breezy warmish day here....

                         Here is the reverse with all seams ironed open for
                                a really flat look ....good for graphic quilt, I think...
                          [I had to piece the border strips as you can see....]

                       I   am  so  happy  to   have  this   finished....👩
                              
                          [Now to sew up the batting strips--
                             I had originally thought of doing QAYG
                              so  I had pre-cut strips...but in looking at the
                                 zig zag pattern, I couldn't figure out how 
                                   I would have matched up the quilting lines....]
Sooooo,
That will be for another session tomorrow-- 
so that by this weekend ----hopefully --
I can
have it layered 
and ready to pin....

                                              I even like how the reverse looks ;))))

I hope you are all enjoying a lovely sewing day....

~ ~ ~ waving with a gentle breeze ruffling my LONG hair ;)))
Julierose, La Blageuse (happy-euse)